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Subject: Windows ME cant read Portable Hard

Original Message

Name: weeleong87
Date: July 11, 2007 at 01:25:45 Pacific
Subject: Windows ME cant read Portable Hard
OS: Windows ME
CPU/Ram: 256

Comment:

My portable hard disk can be read by Windows XP & it is formatted in NTFS format. However, when I bring it to my Windows ME computer, it keeps asking me to reformat the hard disk. Why is this so? Is it because my Windows ME is formatted in FAT32 format. If so, how do I use my hard disk on Windows ME PC?

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Response Number 1

Name: Walter Mitty
Date: July 11, 2007 at 05:58:45 Pacific
Subject: Windows ME cant read Portable Hard

Reply: (edit)

Windows ME natively only supports FAT12/16/32, it has never supported NTFS file systems....
Thats is why it is always better to format in FAT32.
http://www.mount-everything.com/ntfsw/
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Response Number 2

Name: trvlr
Date: July 15, 2007 at 04:54:19 Pacific
Subject: Windows ME cant read Portable Hard

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solution is to install (to ME) one of the freebie ntfs "reader" utils; ntfs.com and sysinternals.com are two sites that offer a freebie version of the util.

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Response Number 3

Name: Dvorak
Date: August 18, 2007 at 10:19:53 Pacific
Subject: Windows ME cant read Portable Hard

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You can use the reader, or if the drive is not too big, back up all the data and reformat to fat32.

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